Shortest Lunar Eclipse Of The Century Delights Millions – 5 April 2015

Millions of skywatchers around the globe admired the ‘blood moon’ in what was the shortest lunar eclipse of the century.

Early Saturday morning, the moon slipped into the Earth’s shadow for just under five minutes. As the sun, earth and moon aligned, sunlight passing through the planet’s atmosphere slowly darkened the moon, until it took on a burnt-orange hue.